Outlander author open to continuing Jamie and Claire’s story

Outlander is back! The seventh season of the time-traveling romance show is currently airing on Starz. With 15 episodes to go, fans will be entertained for a while.

Things are going strong on the book side of things too. Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has released nine of a planned 10 novels…although Gabaldon is reserving the right to keep going if needed.

“I’m 71 and I don’t know how long I will last so I have it in mind that book 10 should be the last to give me a good chance of actually finishing off the series in good order, but you never know,” she said on the Love Scotland podcast. “I at the moment intend book 10 to finish things off it might not work out that way. I might get further into it and think I can’t do it and I can see much more stuff, there’s going to have to be eleven. If that happens we’ll just deal with things when we get there.”

All that said, the ending is in place. “I’ve written the final scene — which is not to say that I won’t rewrite it because I fiddle constantly with stuff. The language might get picked at but I know what happens. But that scene doesn’t necessarily affect what comes before that.” We’ll see how the show will adapt that.

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon explains book change in season 7 premiere

Speaking of adaptation, the season 7 premiere differed from the books in a way that didn’t go unnoticed by fans: at the end, Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) confronted Richard Brown, the brother of the man who subjected Claire to brutal torment a couple seasons back. Although the episode wasn’t entirely clear on what happened, it’s implied that Jamie kills him.

This is a change from the book. Gabaldon weighed in on the alterations on Twitter:

Outlander season 7 will adapt several of Gabaldon’s books, so expect some events to be compressed like this.

Diana Gabaldon didn’t tell her husband she was writing Outlander

Switching back to the Love Scotland podcast, Gabaldon recounted how she started writing the books way back when, which is pretty interesting. “I had two full time jobs and three children under the age of 3,” she said. “I wasn’t even telling my husband that I was writing a novel on the side because he would have tried to stop me — not out of any objection to my writing a novel per se but out of fear that I would drop dead (from exhaustion).”

"I knew that if I told him he would say ‘wait until the kids are in school’, ‘wait until my business is doing better and you can quit one of your jobs’ and all that. I knew if I didn’t do it then I might never do it and so I just didn’t tell him. I kept going along and when he finally found out it was much too late to stop me."

New episodes of Outlander air on Starz on Fridays.

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